The Accuplacer Test
Many students sat down in the computer lab awaiting to take the Accuplacer test. This is a nationally known test to place each student in the classes that are the best for them. The test consists of reading, writing, language skills, and mathematics. All of the questions were multiple choice, besides the essay question.
Depending on what classes students are going to take, they either took reading and writing, math, or both. Starting with twenty sentence skills questions. Knowing how to correct sentences and construction shift. Also reading comprehension had twenty questions. Students had to read the sentence paragraph, or story then answer questions and compare sentence relationships. The math or arithmetic test contained seventeen questions about: operations with whole numbers and fractions, operations with decimals and percents and applications and problem solving. The twenty questions of college level math were about algebraic operations, solutions of equations, and inequalities, coordinates geometry, and functions and trigonometry. The last part of the test was the written essay. It is graded on focus, organization, development and support, sentence structure and mechanical conventions.
The first part, the multiple choice, is not timed; you can take all the time needed. The essay may be timed or not timed, depending on what the school decides.
The students that took this test had to remember these things: relax, get plenty of rest and eat properly before testing, pay attention to directions, understand that it is an adaptive test, if you don’t know the answer, try to eliminate 1 or 2 of the choices, bring your photo identification.
